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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
A HEART CRY.

Little lost darling, M back to me
Lie In my arms as on used to do!
Here II the plscs where your head should b
Here Is the Dos m waiting for you'll
Let me but feel sgain ON my breast
The velvet touch Of your tiny hard;
Your rfe af lils to my own close prest,
My check by your balmy bresthings famed.
See here; I shut tight my weary eyes,
As Thousands of times I'ye doEe in play,
When | urc ose them in soft surprise,
Rirg out a laugh in your sweet old way
Come to nae, come to me, precious onel
1 am SO heart sick and sad and lern;
Naked as Nature without the sun,
Now that tine light of my life has gone.
You sleep in the churchysrd all alone,
No one to watch by your narrow bed,
The wind DER yoar tender body b,osp,
And night cews dripped on your baby-head.
Mol In the luminous fields above
Angels another new star have set;
They may surround you with c4aseless love,
Shield you from sorrow and SHINING yet
Heaven cannot need you SO much es Il
Leg!ons of cherubs it had before.
Baby my baby, why did you dies
Come to your mother, my own, once more!
Little lost daring, come back to mol
Lie in my arms as you used to do!
Here is the place where your head should be
Here on the bosom waiting for you'll
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
Horrible self.Torture.

The Hon. George Curzon, writing of
the religious fanatics of the Kairwan,
tells the following story in the Fort
nightly Reciese: From the crowd At
the door wild figure broke forth, tore
off his upper clothing till he was naked
to the waist, and throwing away his
fez barred head close-shaYen save for
one long and disheveled lock that,
springing from the scalp, fell over his
forehead like some grisly and funereal
plume. A long knife, somewhat re-
sembling cutlass, was handed to him
by the sheikh, who had risen to his
feet, and who directed the phenomena
that cnsued. Waving it wildly above
his head and protruding the fore part
Of his figure, the fanatic brought it
down blow after blow against his
barred stomach and drew it sayagcly to
and fro against the unprotected skin.
There showed the marks of long and
livid veal, but no blood spurted from
the cash. In the intervals between
the strokes he ran swiftly from one
side to the other of the open space,
taking long stealthy strides like a
panther about to spring, and seem
ingly so powerless over his own move
ments that he knocked blindly up
against those who stood in lis way,
nearly upsetting them with the vio-
lence of the collision.
The proves or the piety of this
ardent deyotee proved extraordinarily
contagious. First one and then an
other of his brethren caught the
affiatus and followed his example. In
a few moments every part OF The
mosque was the scene of some novel
and horrible rite of standardization,
performed by a fresh aspirant to the
favor of Allah.
Several long iron spits or prongs
were produced and distributed; these
formidable implements were about
two and a half feet in length. and
sharply pointed, and they terminated
at the handle in a circular wooden
knob about the size of large orange.
There was great competition for these
instruments of torture, which were
used as follows: Posing one in the air,
an Aissaoui would suddenly force tie
point into the flesh of his own shoulder
in front, just below the shoulder blade.
Thus transiixed and holding the weap-
on aloft, he strobe swiftly up and down.
Suddenly, at signal, he fell, on his
knees, still forcing the point into his
body and keeping the wooden head
uppcrmost. Then there started up
another disciple armed with big
wooden mallet, and he, after few
preliminary taps, rising high on tlptoe
with uplifted weapon, would, with an
appalling yell, bring it down with all
his force upon the wooden knob, driv-
ing the point home through the
shoulder of his comrade. Blow sue
ceeded blow, the victim wincing be-
meath the stroke. but uttering no
sound, and fixing his eyes with a look
of ineffable delight upon his torturer,
till the point was driven right through
the shoulder and projected at the back.
Then the patient marched backward
and forward with the air and the gait
of conquering hero. At one moment
there were four of these semi-naked
maniacs within yard Of my feet,
transfxed and trembling, but beauti-
fed and triumphant.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02

How Henry Georges Plan would Work.
Work and Wages:--It is more gem
orally the rich men who can diffuse his
real estate tax and more generally the
poor man who cannot. The circum-
stances are so infinitely varied that no
rule Of tax diffusion applicable to any
class can be made. Without attemptisg
to sound the depths of the matter in
this brief article, or to lay down an un-
varying rule, it may be pointed out
that there can be no scattering diffus-
len of o real estate tax unless there lie
produced on the land many manufac-
tured, mined, agricultural, mercantile,
ETC.. values which are to become the
vehicles for diffusing the tax.
Whether alone or in connection with
personal property, real estate tax is
unjust. 1t commonly stays where it il
placed in the case of the poor man; and
it is commonly diffused by the rich man
or corporation. Hence, in the diffused
system, the rich man bears taxation in
proportions to his consumption and
use of things, while the poor man not
oaly bears it in this measure, but he
has to shoulder his own undiffusable
tax besides. And not only this iDjus-
tee should be pointed out, namely.
that mans consumption and use of
things is not correct measure of his
ability to bear public burdens.
Under the present system the poor
man bears what is to him the heaviest
burden of taxation, and the poor and
middle classes almost the entire bur-
den. An exclusive real estate tax
would make the case still worse.
It fellows from the facts pointed out
above that Henry Georges rent conf
cation tax would confscate the rent of
the poor and middle class land holder
IN most cases, but not that of the rich
landlord, manufacturer, mine owner
and railroad. The rich would add thu
tax to price and to rent and the poor
would have to pay it beside bearing
their own undiffusable taxes,
Whoever would resort to taxation
for the purpose of working out re-
form or establishing justice is playing
with something that will do more dam
age than good. After examining the
Widespread and apparently insurmonnt-
able evils existing in the imposition,
the assessment and the diffusion of
taxes, one cannot help but ,elieve that
taxes should be kept at the very lowest
amount called for by strict construc-
ton of the public necessity.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
Juvenile Bank Accounts.

How am | to provide a bank ac-
count for my children, when | have
SO scanty one of my own2 hear
some fond parents exclaim. By teach
ing your children to earn money.
OF course it is not always possible
for them TO save it when earned; that
is, there are cases where it muSt De
applied to meet the necessities of life
at once. Children cannot begin too
early to earn a little, and there are
an infinite number of ways in which
they can gain Il few cents, giving them
an inexpressible feeling OF pride and
owership in having something that is
truly their own. 1t will serve as an
incentive to greater industry, and the
habits they will thus acquire will be
of vastly more benefit than the money
they save.
One of my own boys in early child
hood evinced a strong propensity to
extravaganza, and although our means
were not such as to permit any great
and foolish outlay of small coins by
the lad, still he managed to spend, in
the most trifling way, all the cents
and dimes given him by his grand
parents and uncles. One Christmas l
gave him bright tin bank, promis-
ing him five cents for every half dol
lar he accumulated. When his saw
ings had reached So (and they were
long in SO doing), | put the sum in a
saving bank, giving him a bank book
of his own. From that time / noticed
decided change in his character.
He never became misery, but grew
up an earnest, prudent boy, soon de-
vising ways and means of adding to
his little store. If our children are
obliged to perform such duties as cut
ting wood, screening ashes, and the
like, they will have more energy and
ambition if You pay them few cents
per week, or better still, let them work
by contract. "-Farmer's Wife, in
american Agriculturist.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
We Left Our Country for Our Coun-
try's Good.

Inquiry was recently made in re-
gard to the authorship of the familiar
line:
We left our country for our country's good.
Col. Thomas w. Knox, the honor
airy secretary of the Lotos club, kind
iy sends us the interesting facts con-
corning this quotation. 1t is from the
prologue to the first heatrical repre-
sentation ever given in Australia, at
Sydney, in 1895. The play was ''The
Ranger" performed by company of
amateurs, all of whom were convicts.
The manager also was convict. An
admission fee of l shilling was de-
manded, and the governor and his
staff was graciously invited to free
seats. Coin being scarce in the col
ony, shilling's worth of flour OF rum
was accepted in lieu of money. One
of the actors spoke the prologue, which
ran as follows:
come,
But not with much eclat or beat OF drum.
True patriots all, for, he it understood,
We lett our country for our country's good!
No private views disgraced our generous zeal,
What urged our travels was our countrys
veal
And none can doubt but that our emigration
Has proven most useful to the British nation.
He who to midnight ladders is no stranger
You'll own will make IN admirable Ranger;
To see Macbeath we have not far to roam,
And sure in Fitch shall be quite at home.
Here light and easy Columbines are found
And wen trained Hariequins with us abound;
From durance vile our precious selves to Keep
We've often had to make flying leap;
To a black face have sometimes owed escape
And Hounsiow Heath has proved the worth
of Grape.
But how, you ask, can we e'er hope to soar
Above these scenes and rise to tragic lorel
For oft alasl we've forced the unwilling tear,
And petrified the heart with real fear.
Macbeth a harvest of applause will reap,
For some of us, fear, have murdered sleep.
His lady, too, with grace and case viii talk
Our lauies have been used at night to waikl
Sometimes, indeed, so various is our art,
An actor may improve and mend lis part!
"Give me a horse!" bawis Richard, like
drone;
Wei find man who would help himself to
one.
Grant us your favors, put us to the test;
TO gain your smiles we'll do our very best:
And, without dread of future turnkey lockits,
Thus, in an honest way, still pick your pockets.
The convict who played Fitch recited
the prologue, and was probably its
author. We know that it is treading on
delicate ground to inquire too curious
" into the antecedents of the ancient
Australian families; but that feeling
will pass away there, as it has in Vir-
ginia, where England also had convict
settlements. Nobody need be averse
to acknowledge his descent from a
convict who could write such capital
verses.-Spirit of the Times.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
HowelIs,s First Literary venture.

Efr. HoWells was born March /, 1887,
at Martins Ferry. Ohio, opposite
Wheeling, West Virginia. His father
was of Welsh descent, his mother Of
German stock, and both were superior
By education and tastes to the moder.
ate circumstances In which they found
themselves when this boy, who was
one of eight children, came into the
world. When he was only three years
old, they left Martins Ferry to i've iii
Hamilton, Ohio, and then the father
bought and edited the Inteliigencer, a
weekly newspaper, and his son was
scarcely out of his cradle before he
learned to set type. He had little
regular schooling, but he was d great
render and had natural gift for com
position. He does not remember how
young he was when he mastered the
mysteries of the printers trade, but
it was certainly long before he was
twelve.
There were leisure moment between
the working hours, and he occupied
these in printing compositions of hi
own. However precocious they may
be, few young authors see their work
immortalized by the dignity and per-
manence of type before they reach
their teens; but when thie lad was only
eleven, he set up and printed an am,
bilious work of his own. A thorough
bred is not less fearless of ditch ana
hedge than the budding author is Of
his theme. Mr.. Howc.ls is called a
"reaEst" now; he writes about men
and women as they are, and will have
neither Williams Of deep dye nor para
CONS of virtue in his stories; for he be-
lleves that good and evil are mixed in
all of us. But he was of different
mind when he wore white apron
and stood before the printers case,
with its alp abetical compartments
full Of little metal letters. He boldly
launched ont then, not in any cookie
she'll Of rhyme, but in a five-act verse
tragedy; and it should be needless to
say that the subject was the death Of a
Roman Emperor. Such ventures carry
too nue. sail for their ballast, and,
like other lightly laden ships, this has
not been heard from sinee.- William
II. Rtdeiag, in 81. Nicholas.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
THE GIRLS or LONG AGO.

Ali Where ere the girls Of long ago,
Like our mothers must have beeEl
Where are the honest, faithful souls
That won the hearts Of nen9
Where are the dresses, plain and neat,
That thosa country lasses worei
Where are the roy cheeks and lips
That, alas we zee no msrsi
Where are the tresses brushed away
From heads smooth and whltea
Where will we look for The frank respond,
Where for the honor brigh.l
Where are the girls VIC hear about,
That seldom cross our liresl
Where are the girls OF nowadays,
Who'll make the old-sime wivesa
Where are the girls who can sew and mend,
And bake batch Of breads
Where are the girls who can cock meal,
And Of work are not afraid3
In vain DO ask the question,
In vain do await reply,
Fer the words come bacg as I sent them forth !;
sHeigh-ho,"I say with sigh.
The simple maid, the honest heart,
We rarely now do meet,
For wealth has given place to worth,
And love to cold deceit.
And Oft, when thinking Of these things,
Iquiz myself this way;
VIII they ask me in fifty years from now,
Where are the girls OF to-days
st Paul Gil b..
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
1t was Bishop Simpson.

American Magazine: Late one Sat
urday night he arrived at town in the
mountainous region of Pennsylvania,
where he was total stranger. The
next morning he made his way to the
Methodist church and accosted the pas
tor, telling him that he was brother
in the ministry. Simpson being ex-
tremely awkward and plain in appear
ance, the pastor was half inclined to
omit the courtesy due brother preach
er, of asking him to deliver a sermon.
If be inquired of the bishop as to his
name he must have failed to catch it,
for be certainly had no idea to whom
he was speaking. His request for the
stranger /. preach was therefore ex.
pressed in the most formal and con-
strained manner. The stranger readi-
ly agreed to fill the pulpit, and the
pastors chagrin was evident as he
resigned himself to his fate. The
bishop preached one of his powerful
sermons, and everybody in the audi
ence whispered to his neighbor, s'who
is hep'' Before he had taken his seat
the pastor had him by the hand.
..What did you say your name WASH
..Simpson.
"What! Not the Bishopp"
ssThat is what they call me"
The minister instantly jumped to his
feet and shouted:
"You have just had the privilege Of
listening to Bishop Simpson. Let us
sing, Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow.'n
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
DRESSING WELL.
The Duty Of Keeping Up with the Great
Dry Goods Procession.

The Duty Of Keeping Up with the Great
Dry Goods Procession.
The Dry Goods Chronicle reads us a
little lesson on the duty of dressing
well:
1.-The day will soon come" says a
well-known leader of fashion, "when
it will no longer be siur on good
woman, old or young, to say she
thinks good deal of dress; she at
taches enormous Importance to esthet-
ics.'' While it remains good motive
to give others pleasure and spare them
disagreeable shocks, the rule must hold
good in every department of life.
1.-The day will soon come when it shall
be recognized duty to conceal what
is offensive, when slight deformities Of
limb and skin shall be avowedly DIS
guised by art. and great and startling
deformities shall cease to disgrace our
public streets. 1t is one of the duties
of life to grease the wheels on which
we drive as far as is consistent with
other duties, and most people must
Judge for themselves how far that is.
1T is as easy to dress well as i'll,
since dress we must. Absolute un-
consciousness as to how she looks is
impossible to any woman, since ever
eye tells her unbidden; therefore ircit-
ference to appearance Is inculca.ed.
1t is natural to wish to please IN all
by kindness and pleasant man
ner -. or at least, not to
displease. How delicately Goldsmith
distinguishes his two type of innocent
and admirable wonanhood! Differ
emily lovely, OLIVIA was often affected
from too great desire to please;
Sophie even repressed excellence from
her fears to offend -one vanished by a
single blow, the other by efforts sue
cessfully repeated
very beautiful women are seldom
vain. They are SO used to their own
beauty that they do not think much
about it. any more than man thinks
much about his rank or profession
when not engaged in his duties. The
vain woman is she who has been un-
fairly disparaged. Undue self-con-
seriousness is the revolt against injus-
tlce, and, like all revolt, is disagree
able. Were all women acknowledged
to have her points, personal as wtl
as mental, and allowed to cultivate
them in a sensible and simple spirit.
there would be less envy and malice.
less vanity and wasted time, and more
innocent pleasure throughout life. But
pretty woman who leaves unculti.
waited her mind and heart for the sake
of her body. that is the illustration OF
the Jewel of gold in a swine's snout!'
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
The Sewing Girls of Germany.

Washington Post: The sewing girls
of Germany, according to report
which has been sent to department of
state, have hard time. Their wages
are barely sufficient for subsistence and
lodging, leaving all necessary incident
al expenses, including clothing, to be
provided either by girls family or
through independent efforts of her own.
In the larger cities This condition leads
to frightful suffering or degrading i'm
morality and ruin. Their employers
are endeavoring to compel them to pur-
chase their thread and other supplies
at employers prices, and the well-to-
do girls who want little extra money
for luxuries and fineries compete with
the lower classes and do the work at
even lower rates than those generally
paid. In short, only those girls have
passable existence who haye sufficient
support in their family ties. The self
dependent girl who lives by herself
generally falls an easy prey to design
ing men and ends in private or public
immortality and prostitution.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
WiIes of a Paper Hanger.

Philadelphia Call: "You want your
house papered tomorrow asked sn
uptown paper-hanger of lady Gus
toner. eyes was the reply. The
dealer assured her that her order
would be attended to promptly, and
entered it upon his book. Four other
orders for the same day were taken
within the next half hour. and when
the last Of bis customers had departed
the dealer and his clerk went over the
books TO find out which of the old Gus
toners could be delayed TO accommo-
date the new ones. s.We must do
something like that he remarked,
s'or the people will 60 somewhere else,
and that would never do.''
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
SONG OF THE WEDDING GOWN.
A woman is busy mid sewers,

A woman is busy mid sewers,
And YEARLY wears frown,
For her tired brain forms the devices
That are wrought ia wedding gown.
She heeds not the hum Of their voices,
Her thoughts upon work are bent,
Fer woman whose mission is labor
Must with labor be ever content;
And to sew, hem and loo and to stitch
Are the hard needs that keep her down
To the scant, sorry pittance earned
For her toll on a wedding gown.
Her delicate form bends Low
Der fabric rich and white,
For queenIy woman pledged
To man whose wealth is might;
And both with pro igal cost
Would astound the gaping town.
And spare nausht, even woman's toll,
On this dainty wedding gown.
So ply fast the nimble needle,
Falter not, poor soul, for rest;
In another world are better gowns,
Nay, and crowns for the opprest.
But here you may not squander
The hours that are not your own,
And let not eye nor fager drop
A stain on the wedding gown.
For tear from l sewers lid
Is an omen that 1t will trace
Its later path in the days to come
On across the wearer's face.
Yet why not, as through reeds streamlet
Steals sobbing and winding down,
May your tears in quiet wander
Through lashes beside your owns
Hem on with your heart-strir gs stu,
Smile, cnnobled by patient truss-
Are women but feathers ard satin?
Ends life at hillock OF dust!
Dear soul, need and pain are the hands
Far the whitest to him who looks down
On her who shall be at his coming
In beautiful wedding gown.
Helen Gtlroy Pitkin.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02

They stood on the sands of the ever
sounding sea. mother Of poets. The
one bearded giant in blue flannel
shirt and white flannel unmentiona-
bles; the other a man of the world,
with watery eye, shaky gait, and
complexion the color OF absinthe.
Said the latter pointing to bare
legged, decollete young lady, just
going into the water: s.You don't have
anything like that out West, do youp'
20. yes,n said the other, with drawl,
shut only in female minstrel shows!"
--Iown Topics
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
A Prophet for Profit.

Detroit Free Press: "Uncle Jack, !"
said a city market butcher to an old
colored Whitewater the other day,
..you know the weather pretty well,
don't YOUR
GYes, sah."
"What kind of a winter do you think
we'll haveP"
sWell, sab, dat same queshun war
axed me yesterday, accompanied by a
gift of 10 cents. and | predicted d
VERY mild winter. Howsumeber, as
you haven't
sHere's dime, Uncle Jack"
..Ah! thanks. It's gwine to be mild,
sab, very mild. Yes, sah--we'n hev
summer all winter, sah.'
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02
The scotchman's Mistake.

Hech! But the the Scotch are a
canny race. Away where the heather
grows and river rows, wi many a hill
between, they have vague and grue-
some IDEAS about California. But they
have not enough belief in the ''bogy"
stories about it to prevent them from
sending out money and turning an
honest penny by Investment here. Per
haps some people would be surprised
to know how many valuable interests
here are owned in Scotland. A few
weeks ago there came out on business
a genial Scotchman from Glasgow
who is interested in some large mining
properties. His sister was packing
his trunk for him before he left. She
was a genuine Scotch lassie, and when
she saw placed before her a bulldog
pistol he had purchased for emergen-
cies, she shrunk back.
You're not going TO take that with
you. are you, brotherP
ITO be sure. It's most important.
Don't forget to put that in my trunk. !"
Il wish you would promise me one
thing, brother she said earnestly.
"What?"
'Don't kill anybody!'
.Not if it isn't necessary"
He started off and was joined by
another Scotch friend. They were
crossing the plains, and at one Of the
stations a man came on board and told
them there was band of Indians
about and an attack on the train was
feared. There was confusion and con-
sternation. The passengers We're all
arming.
"Now's the time for you," said his
Scotch friend. Your bulldog pistol
will come in handy"
..Confound it man! It's checked
through in my trunk. I didn't think
I'd need it till l got to California.
San Francisco Chronicle.